Bitcoin News – April 2017

In April things really heated up, and not just in terms of the bitcoin price. There were awesome announcements regarding the Lightning Network and privacy improvements. The scalability debate evolved with Litecoin adopting SegWit and F2Pool signalling for SegWit on Bitcoin.

With Bitcoin’s market dominance dropping, a vocal group of users is spelling the end of Bitcoin if it can’t resolve the scalability debate, to further their personal agendas in altcoin pumping.

There was also major controversy around Bitmain and several mining pools, with vulnerabilities with discovered in their mining equipment.

What the monthly news is about:
Each day, usually around the same time, I pick out the most popular/relevant/interesting stories in r/bitcoin and save them, after which I release them in one batch after the month ended. This gives you a quick (but not necessarily the best) overview of what happened in bitcoin over the past month.